วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 23 พฤษภาคม พ.ศ. 2556

Drug Prevention and Suppression in Schools in 2013

(17-05-2013)

The Deputy Minister of Education, Mr. SermsakPongpanit, chaired the opening of a workshop on drug prevention and suppression in schools in Thailand for 2013 on 3 May 2013 in KhonKaen. He also monitored the progress of the work being carried out in Thailand.Mr. Sermsak
said that the government had declared that drug problems were on the
national agenda and asked the Ministry of Education to solve the
problems according to the third plan which relates to the protection of
Thai students and youths from drugs by allowing them to learn and
understand how bad illicit drugs are. Instead of using drugs, Thai
youths should spend their free time doing good things and those addicted
to drugs should receive proper rehabilitation. In addition to the
Ministry of Education working closely with schools and school
administrators, teachers will have to take good care of their students.
Within a week after the semester starts, schools should report their
progress on drug suppression to the Ministry. The first group of drug
addicted students will be rehabilitated on 10 June 2013.Mr. Sermsak
also added that solving drug problems sustainably and actively required
the cooperation for everyone because there were two major reasons that
students got involved with illicit drugs. The first one comes from
internal factors at individual schools including a lack of active
measures to deal with drug problems and dealers in schools and a lack of
good systems to monitor students prone to drug addiction. The second
reason stems from external factors, such as there being too many
entertainment venues surrounding schools where students are allowed to
hang out as well as a lack of preventive and suppressive measures on use
of drugs among Thai youths. In these cases, police officers and the
relevant authorities need to work with schools under the D.A.R.E.
project where police teachers educate and rehabilitate young drug
addicts. Besides this, schools are encouraged to participate in the “To
Be Number One”project. This work is carried out at policy and operative
levels with the cooperation of the Ministry of Education, the Public
Health Ministry, the Royal Thai Police Office and the Office of the
Narcotics Control Board (ONCB).